Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organisations involved. The term "protected area" also includes Marine Protected Areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and Transboundary Protected Areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes. There are over 161,000 protected areas in the world (as of October 2010) with more added daily, representing between 10 and 15 percent of the world's land surface area. By contrast, only 1.17% of the world's oceans is included in the world's ~6,800 Marine Protected Areas.

Protected areas are essential for biodiversity conservation, often providing habitat and protection from hunting for threatened and endangered species. Protection helps maintain ecological processes that cannot survive in most intensely managed landscapes and seascapes.

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Australia is currently considering the world’s biggest downgrading of a protectedarea with a reduction in the size of its network of marine reserves ... According to WWF-Australia, that would represent the world’s largest downgrading of protectedareas on record ... Meeuwig said Australia’s precedent is particularly dangerous given the Trump administration is mulling cuts to protectedareas on land and in the ocean....

... to integrate the capital with its surrounding areas ... He also inspected the New Area's plan for building "a city in the forest", its progress in surveying and protecting of cultural relics, and an innovation center for integrated military and civilian development. He later chaired a meeting on the planning and construction of the New Area....

Aiming mainly to protectChina's large natural ecosystems, the national parks will be set up in specific land, marine and ocean areas to achieve a combination of ecological protection and ...National parks are one of the most important types of protected natural areas and will be managed according to a red line system....

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Brazil will reinstate a mining ban in a vast area of the Amazon rainforest, the government announced on Monday, in an about-face that is a victory for environmentalists who feared deforestation ... Mining and Energy MinisterFernando Coelho Filho and other officials have maintained that the reserve merely applied to mining and that other protections for conservation areas and indigenous land inside Renca would remain....

The government had argued that lifting the ban would be a boon to the economy and would allow better oversight of the area estimated to have 1,000 people illegally mining there. Mining and Energy MinisterFernando Coelho Filho and other officials have maintained that the reserve merely applied to mining and that other protections for conservation areas and indigenous land inside Renca would remain....

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 26 (Thomson ReutersFoundation) - A mobile app launched on Tuesday will allow indigenous people, forest managers and law enforcement officials in remote areas to monitor deforestation and fires regardless of connectivity, according to developers ... Using offline maps on their phones, forest rangers uncovered a logging operation in a protectedarea after checking an alert received from the app....

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And many "non-protected" areas like housing, transport and social work could drop by 9-14% over the course of this Parliament alone as the ongoing impact of austerity continues to bite, according to the Fraser of Allander Institute... The commitments to the NHS, policing, childcare and educational attainment could mean that ‘non-protected' areas face ......

And many "non-protected" areas like housing, transport and social work could drop by 9-14% over the course of this Parliament alone as the ongoing impact of austerity continues to bite, according to the Fraser of Allander Institute... The commitments to the NHS, policing, childcare and educational attainment could mean that ‘non-protected' areas face ......